The Voices.com and Voice123 rating system WHA?

Hey everyone,

this is a little section about the voices.com and voice123 rating system.

First off, take this with a grain of salt. A HUGE grain of salt.

Voices.com has a system where either you get an EAR icon or a THUMBS UP icon or NO icon at all. Ear  only represents that they heard the audition. Thumbs up is that they liked the audition and no icon means that they didn't even listen to the audition.

As you can see, that's the thing about speed. If you're slow on auditions, and you're getting the no icon feel. That's bad. You're kind of hurting yourself and you may not have the time to be a voices.com worker. Those top 20 are extremely important.

If you are getting a lot of EAR icons then you are on the right track, there could be a million reasons they don't thumbs up you. I have gotten PLENTY of jobs with just the ear. So there's no guarantee that you WON'T get the job but you can kind of think of it at a not likely feel.  Think of the EARs as a victory and maybe just kind of get that next step in auditioning better. Vary your tone or rhythm, relax.

THUMBS up is great, I usually look at a thumbs up that is closed as a real possibility of a job in the future. If it's working, I literally go "Awww". Because I had a chance at it. If you're getting thumbs up then keep at it, clients like you. Celebrate.

Voice123 is a weird and sometimes insulting. Ick, from the makers of Voicebunny and the makers of the site that costs more than voices.com yet gets me less money. ENOUGH COMPLAINING!!! My apologies to the reader, I have issues with v123 but it has gotten me amazing jobs, I just really don't like this up in yearly fees, they don't really deserve it.

Anywho, you can tell whether it was opened or not in a YES Or NO answer. GREAT awesome.

You can tell how many auditions they have put out AND how many they have listened to. This can be of GREAT use, especially since you know if they have 80 and have listened to 0 then they may not be the best clients. If they listened to 15 out of 20, then it's great go for it. It definitely helps.

THE STAR SYSTEM!!! Lovely, a rating oriented system for people to rate your audition. The only problem is you don't know what they are judging on. It used to be Finalist, unlikely, or Maybe. Which was kind of hopeful. Now it's like, 1 star. Do you hate my voice? Was I not what you're looking for? It feels like an F. The fact is, I bet you can get a 1 star and still get a job on this site. It's ALL RELATIVE.

What can you gauge from V123? Not much. You can tell if they listened and whether or not they are good clients. The tough thing about V123 is that they don't pay V123, they don't act as an escrow service so there is a possibility that this job may not even exist.

Anywho, that's a quick explanation of the rating system. I like Voices, it doesn't have that much stake. V123, is a little too much info combined with a bad system, just audition for as much as you can.

Much Love!!

justin